Ragtime

Originating Location: America

Originating Era: 1900-1918

Key Artists

• Scott Joplin
• Jelly Roll Morton

Key Albums

• Marvin Hamlisch - The Sting

Genre Description

Ragtime descended from African-American music of the late 19th century, and features syncopated rhythms. It's usually in either 2/4 or 4/4 time, and often on the fast side. It enjoyed a brief resurgence in the 1940s with popular Jazz artists doing arrangements of ragtime songs, although it didn't really stay. In the 1950s, another revival occured, which was more successful, with new ragtime music actually being written and recorded, though it was typically more on the novelty side of things. In the 1970s, there was another resurgence, but this was again based on new arrangements of old songs, mainly by Scott Joplin, most notably Marvin Hamlisch's performance of "The Entertainer", from The Sting.

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Further Reading

• Wikipedia Page